David
Not just too expensive, most require wayyyyy too much real estate. In the case of wind and solar, Oz is one of the few countries with the backyard to do it, most don't have that available. And even with that luxury both technologies are still way too dependant on environmental factors, watch a city go out because of a week of bad weather as a result if we put all our eggs into either of those baskets.
We had to do something 50 years ago when the people with a clue worked out that the day we go to 0 emission we'd still get worse for another 50 years before things got better. We're now 50 years down the track from that prophetic revelation and no closer to having a brain, and when things get bad enough for the world to grow one they'll have to deal with yet another 50 years of even worse effects before things start to turn around. Like one expert on the matter (who's name I can't find from a quick search) said, we're beyond prevention now, it's more a matter of how do we survive what is inevitable. Human nature tells me we're going to royally f*** ourselves on that one, especially with all the sheep fighting tooth and nail with caveman phobias against every viable alternative technology.
Oh christ (no I'm not Christian), why the f*** did you have to use 50???? You must be as drunk as me! My head hurts now....
All informed sources agree with you, unlike the supposedly "informed" greenleft ferals that jg listens to but seems totally unable to quote with anything that amounts to a pinch of poo.
Actually there is a bit beyond zero, but not in the direct process of the power generation, more in the "logistical" side of things. But the same is true of ANY company doing anything at all in the current world.
And plenty of days they don't work either. Anyone that ever had to depend on a Solarheart before they decided "f*** that, gas is better if you want a hot shower on demand" will know where I'm coming from on that.
To power cities it's not even in the ballpark.
f*** what people want to look at, we're well beyond aesthetics if anyone has a brain in this world, the problems are inefficiency and lack of reliability in relation to any form of a constant supply. Too environmentally dependant. Even with tonnes upon tonnes of nasty environmentally unfriendly batteries. You ain't going to run a city on a UPS scenario.
I'll admit to knowing next to nothing about that one, might take a bit of a read today, it'd be nice to believe that if we told the surfy ****s to f*** off we could run a whole city on that, at least in coastal regions. And tides are dependable, we used to base most of our station sets down to the hour on tides up north, and it never failed. "3 hours to get over the reef lads".
In test scenarios it causes minor earthquakes at times, a proven repercussion of the technology. I wonder what would happen on an industrial scale.....
And environmentally unfriendly, not to mention the logistical nightmare of battery packs. We're currently having a big enough issue getting it solved in one server room (who would've thought that weight would be such a costly issue because we're one floor up from a clbuttroom and they're worried about 1 tonne battery packs going through the floor!), and it'll never be a solution to run an entire city.
To be honest from all I've read that may be THE alternative to nuclear for the environmental "f*** the Middle East and fossil fuel" scenario when the world grows a brain. City-scale energy plants can run on them theoretically. Problem is at the moment it takes other energy sources to create, but is well and truly turning into a very viable way of reducing our current reliance on other energy sources, perhaps one day we'll see one reactor well outside of a city producing the hydrogen fuel cells to run said city. I'm proud to say the the buses in Perth are one of the test-beds for Hydrogen fuel cell technology.
And again look at the real-estate required. Brazil is a big clue on that one.
That dwarves the containment of nuke waste into insignificance. And what happens when we've contained a sufficient amount of the world's oxygen to totally throw the world on another bender.... Bad juju.
Nuclear Power 1678jg No the hypocrites are the fools that are totally anti-nuclear without ever bothering to even look into what it is REALLY all about and what stage...
Everyone with a brain agrees.
I think you've worked out just the same as I have that all your sane and rational argument will be snipped and all you'll cop is pedantic arguments on how you've said things as opposed to any real contest on the actual content of what you've said. Seems to be the hallmark of the anti-nuke flat-Earth people.
